Author: James Common
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Entry five in my personal challenge to see as many of Britain’s ferns as possible in a single year, this week featuring Adder’s-tongue Ophioglossum vulgatum.
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Holy Island is a botanist’s paradise, famed for its orchids but also home to many other fascinating plants. Its dune slack flora, in particular, is…
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Hareshaw Linn, with its beautiful waterfall and steep-sided wooded banks, is an interesting place to visit whatever the season. Its flora, comprised of many ferns…
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Entry four in my personal challenge to see as many of Britain’s ferns as possible in a single year, this week featuring Tunbridge Filmy-fern.
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After more than five years of combing the streets of Newcastle, identifying plants and trying rather hard to piece together a legible book, The Urban…
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Entry three in my personal challenge to see as many of Britain’s ferns as possible in a single year, this week featuring a rather rare…
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Entry two in my personal challenge to see as many of Britain’s ferns as possible in a single year, this week featuring common woodland ferns.
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Entry one in my personal challenge to see as many of Britain’s ferns as possible in a single year, featuring some our most abundant species.
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Galanthus nivalis is a hardy plant, native to parts of Europe from the Pyrenees eastwards to Ukraine but introduced in the UK.
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It’s New Year Plant Hunt time again – that time of year when citizen scientists across the country head outdoors to see which wild plants…
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Galanthus woronowii occurs in north-eastern Turkey and across the Caucasus region, extending into parts of Georgia and southern Russia.
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Galanthus elwesii occurs in southeastern Europe, around the Black Sea, and across much of Turkey. It was first described in 1875 by Sir Joseph Dalton…
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Part one of a new series on this blog documenting the process of growing Ferns from Spores – I promise, it is easier than it…
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I won’t pretend to know the slightest thing about fungi. As a botanist, I find I can only retain a small amount of non-plant-related information…